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FIDEL, PINOCHET & THE PEN SELF-PORTRAIT OF THE OTHER Herberto Padilla Farrar Strauss Giroux, $19.95, 247 pp. MY HOUSE IS ON FIRE Ariel Dorfman Viking, $17.95,167 pp. Saul Malof f In a...

Dangerous Dossiers/The Boss: (July 1988)

THE MAN WHO WOULD BE CAPO DANGEROUS DOSSIERS Herbert Mitgang Donald I. Fine, $18.95, 331 pp. THE BOSS J. Edgar Hoover and the Great American Inquisition Athan G. Theoharis and John Stuart...

Critics' Christmas Choices (December 1982)

Books: CRITICS' CHRISTMAS CHOICES James Carroll JAMES CARROLL has just published his fourth novel, Family Trade (Little, Brown). THE GREAT POWER of the Christmas narrative-how the earthly life of...

God's Grace (November 1982)

Books: THE GORILLA CHANTS KADDISH GOD'S GRACE Bernard Malamud Farrar Straus & Giroux, $13.50, 223 pp. Saul Maloff IN ORDER.that Bernard Malamud's cautionary tale of the end of the world have...

The thirties & Clifford Who? (October 1982)

BIOGRAPHY, HISTORY & PSYCHOBABBLE The thirties & Clifford Who? SAUL MALOFF IF SCOTT FITZGERALD came to symbolize the twenties in American literary history and myth, so was that once said of...

Minding the world (May 1982)

'OUR PRINICPAL NOVELIST OF NUTTY IDEAS' Minding the world SAUL MALOFF IN BELLOW'S Bucharest, as in Ceausescu's, life is harsh, gray, damp, chilly, frozen. Terror is always possible, lurking yet...

Mrs. Trilling's Mrs Harris (February 1982)

FLAUBERT & FREUD & THE SCARSDALE DIET DOCTOR Mrs. Trilling's Mrs. Harris SAUL MALOFF FOR DIANA TRILLING to evoke the immortal ghosts of Emma Bovary and Anna Karenina in her book of meditations on...

Critics' Christmas Choices (December 1981)

Books: CRITICS' CHRISTMAS CHOICES Alasdair Maclntyre ALASDAIR MacINTYRE is the author of After Virtue (University of Notre Dame Press). He teaches philosophy at Welles-ley College. THE second...

A tyrant of art (November 1981)

A tyrant of art SAUL MALOFF TEACHERS teach themselves; teachers, especially but by no means only teachers of literature and the lesser arts, teach themselves; teachers, for better or worse, teach...

The exactions of art (July 1981)

PHILIP ROTH RETURNING TO THE SCENE OF THE CRIME The exactions of art SAUL MALOFF Philip ROTH introduces some new material, or variations on familiar material, in the latest volume of what looks...

Hemingway alive (May 1981)

VENOMOUS, ABUSIVE-AND TENDER Hemingway alive SAUL MALOFF "HE was," Archibald MacLeish wrote of Hemingway, "one of the most human and spiritually powerful creatures I have ever known. The only...

Getting Marilyn wrong (March 1981)

WITH FRIENDS LIKE NORMAN MAILER . . . Getting Marilyn wrong SAUL MALOFF NORMAN MAILER'S second assault upon the life of Marilyn Monroe*- the first, Marilyn, was on balance bloated and...

Loon Lake (November 1980)

The American dream in fragments LOON LAKE E. L. Doctorow Random House, $11.95, 258 pp. Soul Mcdolf THE last page of E. L. Doctorow's new novel,Loon Lake, is composed entirely of a...

The family idiot (August 1980)

'YOUR MANIA FOR SENTENCES HAS DRIED UP YOUR HEART' The family idiot SAUL MALOFF Incomparable Romantic operatics, nineteenth-century French version: art, death, rapturous if brief...

A guide for the guideless (April 1980)

IF I LEAVE DERRIDA UNREAD, DO I DESERVE TO LIVE? A guide for the guideless SAUL MALOFF AN ADMIRABLE DISPLAY of patience but what were we waiting for? A more secure sense of where we are...

Critics' Christmas Choices (December 1979)

remark to themselves on her ugliness--but by her independence and the force of her personality, she is always the center of attention. In the film, Lizzie seems to have more this sort...

The uses of adversity (November 1979)

PHILIP ROTH & THE M/LSTER'S VOICE I The uses of adversity I SAUL MALOFF T HE BUZZ-VALUE of Philip Roth's new novel, * for readers enamored of such things, can be disposed of handily, without...

Psyching Patty: (June 1979)

as a puzzle teaser than it does on stage where the empty parade The most moving of the works presented during the season of incidents is not brightened by choreographic...

Malamud's lives: (April 1979)

braces both rebellion and down-home conservatism. The boyish solo for Miss Tharp that was both feisty and graceful. dances lacked the same tension, however, and seemed...

Keeping us honest (March 1979)

movie is James Fenimore Cooper's deer slayer, who was cans had. The movie's own term, "freak," betrays this possi- himself a prototype of the cowboy. Before he ever goes to ...

The Family Romance (December 1978)

MAUREEN HOWARD'S 'FACTS OF LIFE' The family romance SAUL MALOFF H I OW CAN we read our lives through the mists and turbulences of four I decades and hope to meet ourselves face to face—to...

An Ethnic at Large (October 1978)

danced than lived. If"ethnicity" '( that insuf- ferable bit of sociologese) is truly to signify, then its imprint on mind and spirit must be meticulously traced; the distinction must make, and...

JEWS AND OTHERS (September 1978)

JEWS AND OTHERS SAUL MALOFF T HE SPIKY ti.fle of Alfred Kazin's tumultuous memoir demands that' we attend and come to terms with it before we are released to turn to the text. The secret is...

LITERATURE BEHIND BARS (April 1978)

LITERATURE BEHIND BARS SAUL MALOFF M ERL~ Haggard (I have it on the authority of H. Bruce Franklin in The Victim as Criminal and Artist: Literature from the American Prison, Oxford, $13.95,...

VIETNAM MON AMOUR (February 1978)

THE SCREEN If the year that just ended had anything novel in it, any new and distinct trend to call its own, it was toward movies about women. It's remarkable when you consider that in one...

A POLITICS OF THE NURSERY (October 1977)

at the Paris airport becomes a foreboding image. The shooting has a retroactive effect on our memory of the man who falls, and of Jonathan's own flight down an escalator earlier on his way to his...

Staying in Touch (June 1977)

of the Hardings suggest the world as wasteland. Colin explains that when he tried to tell Cousin Sammy that "we have to try to find some new way," Sammy, who is willing to fight until "Ulster is...

Dead Writers: A Parable (May 1977)

spirit of the rest of the film. Several scenes look as if they were just improvised, especially one in which he chases live lobsters all over a kitchen while Ms. Keaton takes his picture, and the...

POETRY AND POWER: The Later Robert Frost (April 1977)

Altman's technique well. If you sacrifice plot, then to hold on to your audience you have to give it some other way to get from one scene to the next. You have to play on some central action, or...

Nightmare Relived (February 1977)

Gloria Emerson's book on the Vietnam war and its repercussions* is so important that at the moment of exultation an even deeper dismay sets in with the old knowledge that nothing, not even...

MINUTE STEAK, DISARMED HANDS (July 1976)

BOOKS. MINUTE STEAK, DISARMED HANDS SAUL MALOFF The Company JOHN ERLICHMAN Simon & Schuster, $8.95 The Canfield Decision SPIRO AGNEW Playboy Press, $8.95 When the Director of Central...

JEWEL WITHOUT PRICE (July 1976)

JEWEL WITHOUT PRICE SAUL MALOFF "Friendly witnesses," as informers were once strangely called, did not write memoirs-Whittaker Chambers excepted, and a small number of others, bent on striking...

THE POET AS CULT GODDESS (June 1976)

THE POET AS CULT GODDESS SAUL MALOFF Sylvu Plath became a cult goddess not because she was a great poet- indeed her achievement as a poet is highly problematic-but because she committed suicide at...

THE EDITH WHARTON AFFAIR (January 1976)

THE EDITH WHARTON AFFAIR SAUL MALOFP Edith Wharton: A Biography R.W.B. LEWIS Harper & Row, $15 Without the unexpected discovery of the "Fttllerton Papers," which establish in breathless...

IMAGINING HARDY: (August 1975)

IMAGINING HARDY SAUL MALOFF Young Thomas Hardy ROBERT GITTINGS Atlantic-Little, Brown, $10.95 Every life is, more or less, a ruin among whose debris we have to discover what the person ought to have...

THE ELUSIVE EMILY: (May 1975)

ELUSIVE EMILY SAUL MALOFF The Life of Emily Dickinson RICHARD B. SEWELL Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $30 "Our Emily," the "Queen Recluse" of Amherst, the dotty priestess dressed all in white, a...

DEAR ALLEN, DEAR DONALD, DEAR HART: (February 1975)

DEAR ALLEN, DEAR DONALD, DEAR HART SAUL MALOFF Allen tate, newly arrived in New York in 1924, the halcyon days of Modernism, as a kind of literary emissary from the Fugitive group centered on...

WORK, WORK, WORK (May 1974)

it), The Conversation never gives us the feeling that its director was deflected by mental struggle in making it. Like the timing of its release, the film itself seems so calculated that we...

MAILER'S MARILYN (September 1973)

L egal questions aside, the charge of plagiarism leveled against Norman Mailer by the English publisher of Maurice Zolotow's Marilyn Monroe and Fred Lawrence Guiles' Norma Jean are absurd, less...

Genus: American-Jewish (May 1973)

it is not realistic. This is false. But the Truth does require that we give it sincere voice, that we honor it without qualification at least with our word. The power of the Word is then...

BOOKS: Cultural Critism: Left, Right, Center (November 1972)

BOOKS' CULTURAL CRITICISM: LEFT, RIGHT, CENTER SAUL MALOFF TIadicals of a certain temperament ¦*•*• and cast of mind have long entertained the millennial fantasy—or dream of vengeance—of...

POOR SCOTT AGAIN (February 1972)

ONE nAY there will be a huge "definitive" biography of Faulkner, a rush of fragmentary memoirs and remihiscences, and there will be an end to it. The obligatory biography of Hemingway...

STORMBIRD OF THE WORKING CLASS (December 1971)

all menmpublicly aligns himself with organized Catholicism. In addition to the desire to be part of a religious group which, at least in its highest expressed ideals, is based on the...

EDWARD DAHLBERG-PARIAH (February 1971)

EDWARD DAHLBERG is virtually unassimilable into any ordinary literary category, and partly for this reason, he has never in a long career commanded anything like a wide audience; has remained, not...

POETRY AND POWER (January 1971)

POETRY AND POWER The Soviets' unhealed wound SAUL MALOFF ALTHOUGH many of the details, whole episodes, lie buried in the archives of the Lubianka, if indeed records of them exist at all, the...

CRITICS' CHOICES FOR CHRISTMAS (December 1970)

CRITICS' CHOICES FOR CHRISTMAS BOOKS William Pfaff The book I read with the greatest pleasure during 1970 was undoubtedly Saul Bellow's novel, Mr. Sammler's Planet (Viking, $6.95). Its supreme...

BEWARE OF 'LITERATURE BOYS'! (October 1970)

BEWARE OF 'LITERATURE BOYS'! Nathaniel West: The Art of His Life JAY MARTIN Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $10 SAUL MALOFF In the spring of 1939, when he was revising for the printer the manuscript...

LIFE AND HARD TIMES (June 1970)

BOOKS O0 9 0 0 0 0 9 9 9 0 0 9 9 9 9 9 9 LIFE AND KARD TIMES SAUL MALOFF Let me construct the latest Eternal Principle, which is to say a sneaky, intuitive, nighttime hunch, or...

THE STAGE (May 1970)

REVISIONIST MARXISM THE STAGE Not excepting the backers, who are in no mood for autopsies, I'm probably the only man still alive who wants to know how it is that Minnie's Boys, a...

THE FIEDLER ON THE WOOLF (May 1970)

The examined lives THE FIEDLER ON THE WOOLF SAUL MALOFF Gradually, as Leonard Woolf's autobiography came out volume after volume over the past decade, the impression grew that it was not...

THE STAGE (March 1970)

THE STAGE Even before the curtain opens on Neil Simon's "The Last of the Red Hot Lovers," the atmosphere in the theater is warm, gemiitlich, plump and simmering with good will—the kind of...

THE FINE HART OF BIOGRAPHY (February 1970)

that they were there. Any truly psycho-physical act is the cific illumination. A message came to me-from no- definition of vulnerability, or disarmament. Man be my ...

COMSTOCK'S COMPLAINT: (December 1969)

• • • • • • • • MALOFF/WRITERS & WRITING COMSTOCK'S COMPLAINT On the famous occasion when...

On Flannery O'Connor (August 1969)

E VEN if these "occasional" pieces-lectures, less formal talks, some critical essays and reviews, and miscellaneous articles--were not buttressed by the authority of the late Flannery...

THE IMPOTENCE OF BEING ERNEST (May 1969)

and theatricality, and she stressed natural movements and lyrical art. She shocked audiences not only by discarding corsets but also by removing her shoes and stockings. However, Isadora...

Harlem on My Mind (February 1969)

to be very classy. It has some beautiful western scenery in color; a sparse, simple script; and tight, underplayed performances by Peck and Saint, who remain rather dead-panned throughout the...

IS THE ANTHOLOGY DEAD? (January 1969)

Dec. 10) nor have many virtues of their own. Leonard Melfi's Night is a characteristically amorphous celebration of life, set in a cemetery and built of repetitive phrases dead enough to stay...

AN AMERICAN FANTASY (December 1967)

• • • • • • • • • • • • • • THE WEEK THAT WAS AN AMERICAN FANTASY New York Viewed from a middle distance, or from an angle of ironic detachment, the week of Dec. 4-8 must have seemed very odd,...

THE WHITE HOUSE FESTIVAL (July 1965)

President Eisenhower assiduously refused to consider the possibility, arguing that such was not the business of the government. Just exactly where public opinion today stands is not dear. But it...

TEACHING JOHNNY TO COP OUT (May 1965)

Children's Books TEACHING JOHNNY TO COP OUT _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 O O O O O SAUL MALOFF Generally speaking, parents, not children, choose the books children read. When they take...

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